Crime Thriller

• High Crime | DVD | (06/06/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 4K restoration of the classic crime thriller which helped to popularise the Italian Poliziotteschi subgenre, inspired by the social unrest and criminality in 1970's Italy. HIGH CRIME, directed by ENZO G. CASTELLARI (Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, The Inglorious Bastards), now available on DVD & Blu-ray in the UK for the first time. Vice-Commissioner Belli (Franco Nero) is investigating a series of crimes committed by a drug-running gang in Genoa. He approaches the apparently reformed old-fashioned gangster Cafiero (Fernando Rey) for information on the new gang in town, not knowing that Cafiero plans to take care of them himself. Belli's boss, Commissioner Aldo Scavino (James Whitmore), takes a dossier to the DA on the possible Mafia connections of the gang but is intercepted and the dossier stolen. Belli is forced to step up as the Commissioner and must fight to defend his family from threats by the criminals, before learning of a deal in Marseilles where he may have a chance to take down the underworld organisation once and for all. Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring both Italian and English language options and an exclusive set of art cards. Also known by the Italian title La polizia incrimina la legge assolve. Product Features A Criminal Conversation - Enzo G. Castellari Remembers High Crime: A newly filmed interview with the director of the film, exploring the production of the film 40 years ago. The Scene of the Crime - An Interview with Roberto Girometti: A newly filmed interview with the camera operator and long term collaborator of Castellari on his experiences from the film. High and Dry - The Stuntwork of Massimo Vanni: A new featurette on the creative stunt choreography for the film.

• His Kind of Woman | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Deported gangland boss Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr) has hatched a scheme to re-enter the States and take charge of his crime racket. Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) is a professional gambler who is roughed up by Ferraro’s hoods and then offered $50,000 to leave America and head to the remote Mexican resort of Morros Lodge. En route, Milner bumps into the beautiful Lenore Brent (Jane Russell), a nightclub singer and mistress of Hollywood star Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price). As Milner settles into the rich playground of Morros Lodge, his every move is watched by Thompson (Charles McGraw), one of Ferraro’s henchmen. Realising that he may be in over his head, Milner decides to make his own enquiries as to the identity of his paymaster. But Nick Ferraro is not the type of man to be investigated.

• Fear Island | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A beautiful secluded Island.... Five good friends... And a killer out for revenge.

• The Hit - Die Profikiller | DVD | (16/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Plumber | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There is evil hidden in every shadow... everyday things are not what they seem. One morning there is an unexpected knock on the door and Jilly opens it to a wild man who says he's 'the plumber'. So begins five days of mental torment that will change her life...

• The Killing Room | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Killing Room

• Seven | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £16.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (21.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die. Two Cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher(Fight Club Zodiac The Social Network) guides the action which looks razor sharp and brutally clear on Blu-ray as the improved sound and picture quality take you in to the heart of the horror. The suspense driven plot line is brought to life in dramatic detail and heart-stopping clarity letting you feel the fear and experience the thrilling twists in a whole new world of sin.

• Golden Salamander | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An exotic British thriller adapted from the best selling novel by Victor Canning and directed by Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure). Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) stars as archaeologist David Redfern, a man who has been dispatched to a small North African town to recover priceless artefacts and finds himself in deep trouble when he stumbles on a sinister smuggling racket. Not wanting any trouble Redfern keeps quiet when he discovers a gang of gun runners led by Rankl (Herbert Lom) who drinks in a caf with Agno (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and Douvet (Miles Malleson). The caf is run by beautiful French migr Anna (Anouk Aimee - Lola, La Dolce Vita) and when Redfern falls in love with Anna Redfern he realises that he must act, but fails to realise how dangerous his opponents really are...The first ever DVD release of this classic British film that won an award at the Locarno Film Festival.

• Love Crime | Blu Ray | (22/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ruthless executive Christine (Kristen Scott Thomas) takes delight in toying with the innocence of her assistant, Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier), passing her young prot�g�'s ideas on as her own. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination but ultimately underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning leading to an all-out boardroom battle with deadly consequences.

• Chiller Theatre Features | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's difficult sometimes to fathom how compilers think. This Chiller Theatre threesome consists of two classic silent horror films, plus a low-budget B-movie from the early 1960s. The connection? You decide! Yet these are films that belong in any self-respecting collection, and this package is a good way of acquiring them. Of those featuring Lon Chaney, it's the original 1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame that comes across best. Chaney's grotesquerie is shot-through with pathos, and Patsy Ruth Miller's Esmeralda has enduring freshness. Wallace Worsley handles crowd scenes and cathedral stunts with aplomb, and there's an atmospheric "posthumous" soundtrack, though anyone looking for accuracy in the depiction of medieval French society is in for a shock. 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is slow-moving and uneventful by comparison, with Rupert Julian's direction never escaping the narrow Gothic trappings of the novel. Chaney cranks (or is that camps?) up his range of gestures to the limit, and Mary Philbin is an eye-catching heroine, but the denouement in the Paris sewers seems endless--with looped extracts of Schubert and Brahms as a hardly appropriate soundtrack. Cut to 1962, and The Carnival of Souls--made in Kansas for under $100,000--is an undeniable cult classic. Herk Harvey sustains the increasingly surreal narrative with ease, Candace Hilligoss is striking (if a tad gauche) as the young organist caught on the cusp of this world and the next, and Gene Moore's organ soundtrack is a masterly backdrop for the motley assemblage of ghouls who pursue her around the seaside pier in a memorable closing sequence. On the DVD: Chiller Theatre is very acceptably remastered--with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film--and decently if minimally packaged. --Richard Whitehouse

• Goodfellas | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £15.97   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Nicholas Pileggi’s true-life bestseller Wiseguy GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese it was judged 1990's Best Picture by the New York Los Angeles and National Societies of Film Critics and named to the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films List. Electrifying performances abound and from a standout cast that includes Robert De Niro Ray Liotta Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. It bristles with passion wit and style and endures as an American classic (Peter Travers Rolling Stone).

• Cell 211 - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new prison officer has a desperate battle for survival when he is mistakenly trapped in a prison as a riot unfolds. His only way out is by pretending to be a prisoner, but first he will have to befriend a violent inmate leading the rebellion.

• Return of the Tooth Fairy | DVD | (15/06/2020) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cheap Thrills | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the producers of 'You're Next' comes Cheap Thrills. Unemployed and down on his luck Craig (Pat Healy) finds himself drowning his sorrows in an attempt to forget the mounting debts threatening to tear his family apart. When a chance meeting with an old friend (Ethan Embry) leads to one drink after another; the pair find themselves drawn into an innocent game of dare by a thrill seeking couple with money to burn; Violet (Sara Paxton) and Colin (David Koechner). As the night progresses both Vince and Craig become the victims of their own greed as the initially fun game escalates into something far more sinister. When the money is on the table how far will two friends go to ensure their futures?

• Exotica | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £12.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (35.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a world of temptation obsession is the deadliest desire. Exotica is a moody psychological study of one man's all-consuming guilt and obsessions. Francis a tax accountant whose wife and child have both died finds himself irresistibly drawn to a local strip joint known as 'Exotica'. Every night he goes there to gaze upon Christina a friend of his deceased daughter whose performance consists of shedding the little-girl costume she wears onstage. But the danc

• Never Die Alone | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rap star DMS stars as a stylish drug dealer who returns to his hometown seeking redemption but ends up only finding violent death.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 17 And 18 - Fat Chance / Who Killed Harry Field | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £10.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (37.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Ultimate Gangster Collection | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: American Gangster: Drug-kingpin Frank Lucas smuggles heroin into the US by hiding it with the bodies of soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. By delivering a product that is far superior to his competitors Lucas has rapidly established his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer. While Lucas delicately constructs his own criminal empire Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) one of the few honest detectives in a corrupt system senses a sizeable shift within the hierarchy of the drug underworld and sets out to investigate this hitherto unknown power player that has come out of the shadows to dominate the drug trade. But with Detective Trupo (Josh Brolin) Roberts' crooked and jealous colleague wanting to obstruct and ruin the integrity of his idealistic counterpart Roberts is left with little option other than to take desperate measures to end Lucas' rule in Harlem. Carlito's Way: Sprung from prison on a legal technicality by his cocaine-addled attorney (Sean Penn) former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante (Pacino) stuns the local underworld when he vows to go straight. Taking a job managing a glitzy low-life nightclub he tracks down his onetime girlfriend (Penelope Ann Miller) and rekindles their romance promising he's changed for good. But Carlito's dream of going legitimate is undermined at every turn by murderous former cronies and even deadlier young thugs out to make a name for themselves. Ultimately however his most dangerous enemy is himself. Despite good intentions Carlito's misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honour will plunge him into a savage life-or-death battle against the relentless forces that refuse to let him go. Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Public Enemies: Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp Christian Bale and Oscar winner Marion Cotillard in the story of Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger: the charismatic bank robber who was relentlessly pursued by renowned FBI agent Melvin Purvis in a legendary game of cat-and-mouse. Mean Streets: Mean Streets heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons and daughters in New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks... Scarface: In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbour was opened and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name - Scarface!

• Charade | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Midsomer Murders - A Worm In The Bud | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (240.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The ancient Setwale Wood has provided remedies for the people of Midsomer for many decades. Now it is the subject of court action by villagers to prevent the impecunious owner of Abbey Farm James Harrington from cutting it down to raise finance. Leading light of the 'save the wood campaign' is neighbouring farmer Simon Bartlett. The case goes before Causton Crown Court. After the ruling a fight breaks out between the two farmers. The next day the body of Bartlett's wife is found